MANAWATU SHIPPING TRADE.
Mr Burgess, Collector oS Customs, has kindly handed us a return showing various facts of interest, regarding the trade at the port of Foxton. From it our readers will see that, a steady improvement has taken place in the trade, more especially in the class of vessels arriving here. The following are the figures : —
Though the progress indicated is not very great, the tonnage shows an improvement last year of over 4000 tons, which is a gratifying proof of the the expansion of the local trade. It is absolutely certain that during the year upon which we have just entered, a great improvement will take place in the export timber trade. Either that or a terrible depression axe staring the sawmillers of the district in the face, for local consumption cannot possibly keep twenty mills going in the district. Should a greater trade spring up with the South than that which at
present exists, we may reasonably expect 1880 to witness a great improvement in the shipping trade of this port.
o o Number of Tear. vessels. Tonnage. 1877 16C 9,030 1878 136 9,167 1879 167 13.202
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Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue 38, 6 January 1880, Page 2
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190MANAWATU SHIPPING TRADE. Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue 38, 6 January 1880, Page 2
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